Morse v. Dunham’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““In suits against public officers, or against any person specially appointed to execute the duties of such officers, for any act done by them by virtue of their offices, respectively, and in suits against other persons, who, by the command of such officers, or in their aid or assistance, do anything touching the duties of such office, which are required by law to be laid in the county where the fact happened, if it shall not appear on the trial that the cause of such action arose within the county where such trial is had, the jury shall be discharged, and judgment of discontinuance shall be rendered against the plaintiff.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Graham v. Smith